CALGARY -- He may have been cleared of shooting his ex-girlfriend's breast implants, but Calgarian Fernando (Frank) Chora is going to jail for the crimes which followed.

Justice Craig Jones on Wednesday sentenced Chora to the equivalent of four years on break and enter and weapons charges in the January 2006 incidents.

Chora was convicted of breaking into the home of an elderly Vulcan-area couple with whom he'd worked and holding them at gunpoint in the early morning hours after the shooting.

Later that same day he was arrested in Lethbridge and charged with two additional firearms charges.

Chora had fled to the home after his 9mm Beretta handgun accidentally discharged and struck his former girlfriend, Eileen Liknes, as he exited her car on Jan. 2, 2006 in Okotoks.

The projectile shattered Liknes' breast implants, which she credited with saving her from serious harm.

"My implants took the brunt of the force," she testified at Chora's attempted murder trial last fall.

Crown prosecutor Britta Kristensen had sought a total prison term of eight years for Chora, but Jones felt a sentence more in line with what defence lawyer Adriano Iovinelli was seeking was appropriate.

Iovinelli suggested with credit for time he's already served, Chora should have been released on Thursday.

But Jones said despite credit of more than three years incarceration, Chora, 61, must still serve another 254 days.

The judge said he accepted Chora's explanation he was sorry for breaking into the couple's home, whom he considered friends, to seek their advice.

"Mr. Chora panicked on the evening of Jan. 2, 2006," the judge said, of his flight from the scene where he shot Liknes.

"He went to the home of the only people he thought he could trust and sought their advice.

"However, he should not have broken into their home."

Jones said even though Chora didn't use any actual violence on the couple, he did threaten them by his presence, the use of his gun and the fact he falsely told them he shot two people.

Chora woke the couple up when he entered their bedroom around 8 a.m. armed with his handgun.

The presence of the weapon "amounts to a threat of violence, especially when the man holding that gun tells you he earlier shot two people," Jones said.